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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Friday, 15 February 2008 | |
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But then few technology companies look that far ahead. At that time, drawing inspiration from many others, he and David Keegel got going in a little lounge room. Seventeen years later, both of them are still around, Zymaris playing the chief executive's role and Keegel, now a veritable storehouse of Unix knowledge, continuing to hack away. The business, CyberSource , has achieved several firsts - among them, being the first to offer support for, or training in, Linux and open source in Australia. Along the way a number of competent techies have been added to the rolls and the company can now boast of having a set of diverse and competent skillsets under one roof. That roof is now in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, just the latest move since 1991. There are hundreds of start-ups that look to work furiously for a few years and then get acquired by some bigger company; Zymaris has never belonged to that school of thought. Says he: "You can't make billions doing this kind of business. That's something I've always known. But you can make decent money - and that suffices. We know that we're providing good software and good services. That last bit matters." |
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